Slide for skirt-hoops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. WARREN, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

SLIDE FOR SKIRT-HOOPS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,709, dated October 5, 1858.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. WARREN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Slide for Skirt-Hoops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a oerspective view of the lapping portions of a hoop with my improved slide attached. Fig. 2 exhibits in perspective the two pieces of which the slide is composed, detached from each other. Fig. 3 exhibits in perspective the slide complete. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the hoop and slide.

Similar' letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This slide is composed of two separate pieces of metal plate, one of which clasps either end of the hoop, and the other the portion of the hoop against which the end laps, and the two being united between the hoops by the locking of their edges in such a manner that, except at its extremities, the clasp presents no edge upon the portion of the hoop upon which it slides and therefore permits the adjustment of the hoops with less danger of tearing their covering.

The two pieces of metal A, B, of which the slide is composed, are, before being bent into the shape shown in Fig. 2, simply of a quadrangular form. The piece B, which clasps the end of the hoop C, is made as much wider than the hoop as is necessary to form the lips a, a, to lap over the edges thereof. The other piece A, is made sufiiciently wider to form the parts I), to lap over the edges of the hoop and the lips c, c, which are turned back from the said parts Z, b, to form a lock with the parts a, a, of the piece B, in the manner represented in Fig. 3. Both pieces are of the same length. They are brought to the form and condition represented in Fig. 2, by pressure in or between dies or by any other suitable apparatus, in which form and condition they are capable of being put together in the manner shown in Fig. 3, and, when together, of receiving the two portions of the hoop. Vhen they are respectively applied to their proper parts of the hoop so that the lips a, a, and c, c, will come within the lap thereof, they are brought together in the manner shown in Fig. 3, and a thin piece of steel not wider than the hoop is put between the hoop and the part d, of the piece A, and then the whole is subjected to a heavy pressure or blow, after which the piece of steel afore said is drawn out, and it will then be found that though the two pieces are firmly locked together by their lips, and the piece B is fastened upon the end of the hoop, the piece A has been left, by the withdrawal of the piece of steel, loose enough to slide on its own portion of the hoop. The slide thus applied, though capable of retaining its place, slides with greater freedom than those commonly used, and as the edges of the lips of the sliding portion are turned away from the portion O, of the hoop on which they slide, as shown in Fig. 4, they cannot tear the covering of the hoop. One of these slides is applied to each end of the hoop, as is the case with the slides heretofore used.

I do not claim to be the first inventor of a slide to be attached permanently to one end or part of the lap of the hoop and applied to slide on the other part; neither do I claim any slide composed of a single piece of metal, or constructed in any other way than substantially as herein described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

The slide composed of the two parts A, B, formed as specified and combined by a lock a, b, c, between the lapping portions of the hoop, substantially as herein described.

WM. M. WARREN.

Witnesses WM. TUsoH, W. HAUTE. 

